It is no longer a discussion that every company that aims to survive the demanding current circumstances in the market should use Big Data technology for optimizing their performance. However, the implementations of these tools have to be planned with the highest care, for the success in the implementation is going to depend on Big Data giving value to the entity, and not to become a risk and confusing factor.

In addition, changes in technological forms of communication also change Big Data:

To deal with the inexorable increase in data generation, organizations are spending more of their resources storing this data in a range of cloud-based and hybrid systems optimized for all the “Vs” of big data. In previous decades, organizations handled their own storage infrastructure, resulting in massive data centers that enterprises had to manage, secure and guarantee continued operation. The shift to cloud computing changed that dynamic. By shifting the responsibility to cloud infrastructure providers — such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, IBM and others — organizations can deal with almost limitless amounts of new data and pay for storage and compute capability on demand without having to maintain their own large and complex data centers. (searchdatamanagement.techtarget.com).

The most known aspect in this problematic is the care companies must have for assuring that Big Data is not going to risk the confidentiality of the entity’s information, because the bigger the information, the higher is the accuracy required in the protection tools. For that reason, the securities that entities should demand from the solutions are significantly high and relevant.

Big Data solutions should offer the possibility of getting flexible and adapting the security parameters to the needs of the company. It is necessary being able to stablish passwords for security, according to the different profiles of the users of the tool, regarding departments and responsibilities within the company, which in turn produces levels of security depending on the levels of responsibility within each department. It is also necessary to stablish passwords for customers that may use the available tools for them on line.

It is the presence of Internet what has to alert the directives regarding these implementations, because a great amount of information is transmitted or extracted from and through this common and public space. The fact of having the corporate information fluctuating on the cloud forces an accurate planning of the security measures that the company will have for preventing information leaks or steals.